Rescue: Phal. White Dream 'V3' AM/AOS
 

I bought the large standard white-flowered Phalaenopsis White Dream 'V3' AM/AOS a few years back as a very inexpensive sale plant from Orchids by Hausermann. They usually have them in the sale area. It came as a very large plant in a 6" pot, much larger than I expected, with multiple old, cut flower spikes.

It grew well here. Unfortunately pack rats think it's tasty. They ate off most of the roots, chewed leaves and transected the stem. This is what I have now.

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I'm going to rejuvenate it. I'll post photos from time to time of how it's doing.

Today I trimmed the stem. I will soak it for a few hours in a solution containing KelpMax, Inocucor and about 50ppm nitrogen 20-20-20 fertilizer. I think Inocucor is no longer available, but First Ray's carries a probiotic replacement.

Then I will put it into semi/hydroponics. This method works extremely well for me here with Phals. The ones not rat-chewed almost always carry at least 8 leaves, and flower well.

Pack rats are not God's little creatures! 🥺 This will be an interesting experience for our newbies! Good thinking as usual!

Here it is in a S/H pot, a 1 quart yogurt container I drilled. The oldest leaf has already turned yellow and fallen off. There is a piece of perlite that fell into the pot:

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And here is another Phal whose name tag was stolen by the pack rats after they chewed it. As you can see, it is in spike. Maybe I will recognize it. Unfortunately I had a few unnamed new hybrid Phals, so I may never know what this is. The cactus in the background is known as Deamia testudo, though it has been moved into genus Selenicereus. The red stem arching up is from a Hoya:

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Hi E.S.

Hope your phal is recovering nicely. I just viewed this phal variety on haussermans yesterday. I have been looking for the largest white phal commercially available and am curious if this variety ranks with the largest Whites. Do you or anyone else know or have a variety to recommend ? Thanks!!

That's the one I would recommend. I have one and it's huge. Problematicly huge.

Those pack rats are unbelievable! Wouldn't be surprised if they eat the plastic pot too.

Thank you Dolly! Hopefully I can get it on discount like the OP did. I only have room for one Phal now and I want the real big classic white one.

This is one of the largest. A few other vendors list newer and what they say are better big white Phals, but this one is as tough as cheap steak.

Thank you!! And “cheap steak” that gave me a good laugh!

I think there is confusion out there between Phal White Dream 'V3' AM in 2013 and Phal Sogo Yukidian 'V 3' HCC in 2014. I am seen the names even partly combined.

Sogo Yukidian was registered in 1998 while White Dream is an older cross with a registration in 1987. Sogo Yukidian is about 1 cm larger than White Dream in Orchid Pro.

Hausermann sold me a White Dream V3.

Hausermann's has these on sale again in 6" / 15cm pots (out of bloom) for $13 plus shipping. If I were in the position of wanting a big white Phal I would buy one right now. It is extremely vigorous, easy to grow and flowers well.

E.S. - yes! Thank you. I ordered one from them and received last weekend before nights got too cold to ship. Great substance to this plant. They left a few cut spikes on it so maybe I can get it to bloom sooner than otherwise. Glad to hear confirmation that this is a really good white classic phal. Even with shipping $$ it was still approximately the same price I’d pay for one of the big and suffering ones at the big box stores, and this is so vigorous.

So far no one has asked: What are you doing about the rats?

Trapping.

Phaleonopsis ‘White Dream’ ‘V.3’ AM/AOS

Did I tell you all that I finally got one of these in Nov 2020? First time blooming.

This is the only named phaleonopsis I own, all the others are Noid rescues from the grocery store 1/2 price shelf. I bought this from Hausserman’s after receiving recommendations on this thread for a large classic white phal.

I like the large white phals and have got several NOIDs. What size have the flowers turned out PP? It looks lovely.

Thank you. Flowers are approximately 4.5” across and down. First blooming, so maybe gets bigger over years. Others on this thread have them, perhaps they got them to bloom larger. Very robust substance to the foliage and blooms.

FR, I just photographed it with a pen for scale.

Lovely PP, good size flowers!

They beat mine by a little. My NOID's flowers measure between 4 inches and 4 and a quarter.

recounted my flowers today, 8 on one spike and 13 on the other!!
Today's light really highlighted the faint pink tinge that's normally only visible on the backs.
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Really interested to know if your named Phal has pure white flowers or also shows a tinge of colour?
I want to get myself a 'pure' one :biggrin:

FR, is that your noid blooming? Incredible! Like an award winner. My favorite white cattleya I owned for 30+ years is a noid, I posted on it weeks ago.

Yes, this phal is a pristine snow white. Looks more beautiful each day. Has that little yellow glow in center area. Another photo below. Perhaps Haussermans has better quality photos on their website.

Thanks PP, the class shows! Can really see the difference in flower colour. My NOID doesn't even look 'white' anymore :rofl:

OK, I'm officially on the lookout for one like yours. Don't get named ones here and no one ships to us here so I'll investigate buying in UK and bringing back with me when I visit in autumn. I've no idea of the regs for UK to Spain so I'll ask Sade, hopefully she'll know.

Thanks for answering all my Qs.

You are welcome FR. Best wishes on your hunt for finding one. I just noticed you are in the Canary Islands. What an exotic location. I love the Canary Island Date Palm and would enjoy visiting the islands someday. The forests look amazing. Hopefully the volcano has not caused too much damage.